Last year demonstrated the impact citizens can have on natural resources. Now we need to finish what we've started. We need to bring more people to the (Capitol) mall and complete dedicated funding.

If the House gets its act together, it could get it done before the rally.

Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.

I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?

I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it was sort of in the middle of me falling deeply in love with literature, and I took a Shakespeare course with a professor who couldn't imagine anything more important than Shakespeare.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.